Match Reports

Arsenal 5 Tottenham 2: All guns blazing at the Emirates

Per Mertesacker equalised for Arsenal minutes after Emmanuel Adebayor was sent off (Getty)

ARSENE WENGER does droll almost as well as Emmanuel Adebayor does idiotic.
“Well...” deadpanned Wenger. “If our opponents are in control from the first
minute to the last minute and we win 5-2...I don’t mind too much.”

He had been told about Andre Villas-Boas’ assertion that Tottenham held this
game in their grip from kick-off to final whistle. In truth they had done so
for no more than 17 minutes. Then Adebayor lost his grip.

With Santi Cazorla — the shimmering Cazorla — in possession in an
unthreatening position near the touchline in midfield, Adebayor went
airborne and, with both feet off the ground and one coming over the ball,
sank his studs into the Spaniard’s ankle. One of Howard Webb’s easier red
cards. The day was transformed.